Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-440) and index

1. Westward by the main channel -- 2. The ice gorge of '56 -- 3. Old-time packets and the men who ruled them -- 4. "Mark Twain" at the rudder -- 5. Cupid at the "apple-butter stirring" -- 6. The Battle Morn of Shiloh -- 7. Barbarism at bay -- 8. With Sully into the Sioux lands -- 9. Three roads to El Dorado -- 10. The "Luella" at Fort Benton in vigilante days -- 11. The troubles of a treasure ship -- 12. The captain encounters a "bad man" -- 13. Blockaded by buffalo -- 14. A game of strategy -- 15. Ice-bound on the "Nile" -- 16. Wood Hawks -- 17. The vegetable trip of the "North Alabama" -- 18. The hare and the tortoise -- 19. A three thousand mile race -- 20. The railroad comes -- 21. With Forsyth of Beacher's Island -- 22. "Yellowstone" Kelly guides the "Key West" -- 23. Campaigning with the seventh cavalry

24. Pioneer paths -- 25. Bound for the mountains -- 26. Breasting unknown waters -- 27. "Lonesome Charlie" -- 28. By line and spar to the head of navigation -- 29. First blood for Crazy Horse -- 30. Custer to the front -- 31. The heroine of the upper river -- 32. Strong men and true -- 33. The last council of war -- 34. The seventh marches into the shadow -- 35. The messenger of disaster -- 36. The squadron that perished -- 37. The aftermath of battle -- 38. The "far west" races with death -- 39. The Battle at Powder River -- 40. Terry takes the field -- 41. Patrol duty with Miles and "Buffalo Bill" -- 42. The fruits of struggle -- 43. The "Rosebud" carries the general of the Army -- 44. The bones of heroes -- 45. Rustlers -- 46. With Kendrick to the musselshell -- 47. The Sioux bend to fate -- 48. Turned turtle -- 49. The garden out of the wilderness

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